[Slight OT] TDPL in Russia

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:28:12 -0400, Daniel Gibson <metalcaedes at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Steven Schveighoffer schrieb:
>> On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:12:37 -0400, Walter Bright  
>> <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:58:39 -0400, Walter Bright  
>>>> <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>>>>>> FWIW, Metallica's Garage Inc (the second disc) has some sort of  
>>>>>> anti-copy distortion.  You can actually see a pattern on the data  
>>>>>> side of the disc.  The result when you encode it via MP3 is some  
>>>>>> slight distortion, even at 160kb/s.  It's pretty bearable though.   
>>>>>> I would expect that a bit-for-bit copy would not have any issues  
>>>>>> though.  It's not copy protection, it's ripping protection.
>>>>>
>>>>> Given that Metallica uses heavily distorted guitars anyway, who  
>>>>> would notice?
>>>>  You notice in the cymbals the most :)  And Ulrich uses a lot of  
>>>> cymbals.
>>>>  But you are right, the guitars aren't as noticeable (you can still  
>>>> hear it though).
>>>
>>>
>>> Back in the 80's, it wasn't unusual for a compiler vendor to release a  
>>> "student" version or some such, that was missing a feature like  
>>> floating point. The problem, though, was that the compiler would earn  
>>> a reputation as not having floating point and people would turn  
>>> elsewhere when they would want to buy a professional compiler.
>>>
>>> In introducing such subtle distortion, Metallica runs the risk of  
>>> being labeled a band with lousy sound.
>>  Note that the sound is fine if you are playing the CD, it's if you rip  
>> the tracks to MP3s when the sound degrades.
>>  BTW, I think they abandoned this, the Death Magnetic album does not  
>> have this protection.
>>  -Steve
>
> The Death Magnetic album had crappy sound anyway, according to Wikipedia:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Magnetic#Criticism_regarding_production
> (But not because of the copy protection but because of the  
> aforementioned loudness war).

*shrug* sounds good to me ;)  The production quality is low, but I'm  
pretty sure that was on purpose.  I've never heard of the dynamic range  
thing, and I've never really noticed it.

On another note, ...And Justice for All is an album that you can turn up  
all the way and it's never loud enough :)

Crappy sound that I'm talking about is like a "wishuwishuwishu" sound over  
the whole recording.  I can only hear it on my ripped tracks of Garage Inc  
(and only the second disc, the one they recorded for the album  
specifically), the actual disc doesn't exhibit the sound.  I think they  
did something to the high frequencies that messes up mp3 encoders.

-Steve